He choose to pass on a risky shot while not having positive ID on the shooter.
He wanted validation from his chain of command to take a shot he was not ever trained to take on a person he was not sure needed to be shot.
Of all the bad decisions that day this is very near the bottom and is the essense of Monday Morning Quarter Backing.
You are Monday Morning Quarterbacking yourself.
You don't know what type of shot the guy had. It may or may not have been a "risky shot" as you put it...
The guy may have been teed up like a golf ball, for all you know. Obviously, the cop had a clear enough picture to ID him as the shooter/armed intruder... Why else would have have asked for permission to engage?
